SECURITY DIGEST

ISLAMABAD -- A Pakistani television station aired a video Saturday allegedly showing the suicide bomber who hit a CIA outpost in Afghanistan telling the Pakistani Taliban leader that he had shared U.S. and Jordanian intelligence secrets with fellow militants.

He also urged militants to strike other U.S. targets in retaliation for the killing of the leader's predecessor last year in a U.S. missile strike. Although its veracity could not be immediately determined, the video is a powerful recruiting tool and its content potentially embarrassing to the U.S. spy agency.

The suicide attack inside the CIA base could prompt the U.S. to further pressure the government of Pakistan to crack down on militants who operate on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border.

CIA Director Leon Panetta defended his agents in the Washington Post online Saturday. "The individual was about to be searched by our security officers -- a distance away from other intelligence personnel -- when he set off his explosives," he wrote.

New Yorker pleads not guilty

NEW YORK -- A New York City man under investigation for his links to a terror suspect pleaded not guilty Saturday to charges that he flew to Pakistan to get military training from al-Qaida.

Adis Medunjanin entered the plea during a swift arraignment at a federal court in Brooklyn.

The 25-year-old was one of two Queens men arrested early Friday in connection with the investigation of Najibullah Zazi, a Colorado airport driver who pleaded not guilty last year to supporting terrorism.

Man in Newark scare defended

PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- Friends described the man charged with breaching security at Newark Liberty International Airport as a romantic who just wanted to see his girlfriend off properly.

Speaking outside Haisong Jiang's home Saturday, Ning Huang said he has known the 28-year-old for several years. Huang said Jiang is "a very good person."